Girls cross country, life lessons featured in movie

Coming next summer to a theater near you: “Remember the Goal,” a film about a Christian girls high school cross country team, the fictional Orange Hills Academy.

“Remember the Goal” was filmed in Nashville mostly over this past Labor Day holiday. The race scenes for a state meet were shot at the Steeplechase course at Percy Warner Park on Sept. 5.

Dave Christiano directed the movie, which is from The Christiano Brothers. They were the creative team that released “A Matter of Faith” earlier this year in select theaters.

Dave Christiano said he plans to release “Remember the Goal” in about 350 theaters in 11 Southern states on Aug. 26, 2016, a much wider rollout than the previous movie but focused on much of the Bible belt. If the film does well on opening weekend, there’s a good chance it could hit theaters around…